Seeing an agent perform an action typically triggers a motor simulation of that action in the
observer's Mirror Neuron System (MNS). Over the past few years, it has become increasingly …

Most cognitive models of apraxia assume that impaired tool use results from a deficit
occurring at the conceptual level, which contains dedicated information about tool use …

Empathy is a multidimensional construct and comprises the ability to perceive, understand
and feel the emotional states of others. Gender differences have been reported for various …

The study of patients with semantic dementia, a variant of frontotemporal lobar
degeneration, has emerged over the last two decades as an important lesion model for …

Numerous functional neuroimaging studies suggest that widespread bilateral parietal,
temporal, and frontal regions are involved in tool-related and pantomimed gesture …

To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions,
we administered a battery of six tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed …

Recent research has indicated that processing different kinds of action verbs, such as those
related to arm or leg movements (eg grab, kick), engages regions along the motor strip …

The Simulation Framework, also known as the Embodied Cognition Framework, maintains
that conceptual knowledge is grounded in sensorimotor systems. To test several predictions …

A number of conflicting claims have been advanced regarding the role of the left inferior
frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobe and posterior middle temporal gyrus in action recognition …

Previous behavioral data suggest that the salience of taxonomic (eg, hammer–saw) and
thematic (eg, hammer–nail) conceptual relations depends on object categories …